Blair’s hunting hypocrisy

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has written in his newly-published autobiography that he deliberately sabotaged the ban on fox hunting his government introduced. Blair said he ensured that the 2004 Hunting Act left enough loopholes to allow hunting to continue “provided certain steps were taken to avoid cruelty when the fox is killed”. He also told Home Office minister Hazel Blears to steer the police away from enforcing the law.

It has been apparent to hunt monitors and sabs since the “ban” was brought in that the police have little interest in enforcing it, but Blair’s statement confirms for the first time that this inaction was ordered from the very top, in contradiction to the Government’s public statements.

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